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Streetwise Hebrew

#248 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

Streetwise Hebrew

TLV1 Studios

Language Learning, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 โ€ข 1.1K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 2 April 2019

โฑ๏ธ 7 minutes

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Summary

We're getting ever closer to elections day in Israel. So over the past few weeks, every time we turned on the news we would hear politicians calling one another a liar.

How do we say liar in Hebrew? How do we say white lies? Guy tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the root sheker (ืฉ.ืง.ืจ).

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New Words and Expressions:

Sheker, shkarim - Lie, lies - ืฉืงืจ, ืฉืงืจื™ื

Sheker lavan - White lie - ืฉืงืจ ืœื‘ืŸ

Sheker gas - Blunt lie - ืฉืงืจ ื’ืก

Sheker ve-kazav - Downright lie - ืฉืงืจ ื•ื›ื–ื‘

Shkarim ktanim - Small lies - ืฉืงืจื™ื ืงื˜ื ื™ื

Leshaker le-mishehu - To lie to someone - ืœืฉืงืจ ืœืžื™ืฉื”ื•

Hu shiker li ba-panim - He lied to my face, bluntly - ื”ื•ื ืฉื™ืงืจ ืœื™ ื‘ืคื ื™ื

Al teshakri oti - Don't lie to me - ืืœ ืชืฉืงืจื™ ืื•ืชื™

Shakran - Liar - ืฉืงืจืŸ

Eize shakran/shakranit - What a liar - ืื™ื–ื” ืฉืงืจืŸ/ืฉืงืจื ื™ืช

Dai, ya shakran/shakranit - Stop it, you liar - ื“ื™, ื™ื ืฉืงืจืŸ/ืฉืงืจื ื™ืช

Ata im ha-hamtsa'ot shelcha - You and your inventions - ืืชื”/ืืช ืขื ื”ื”ืžืฆืื•ืช ืฉืœืš

Ata oved alai/At ovedet alai - You're kidding me - ืืช ืขื•ื‘ื“ืช ืขืœื™ื™

Shakran sidrati - Serial liar - ืฉืงืจืŸ ืกื“ืจืชื™

Shakran patologi - Pathological liar - ืฉืงืจืŸ ืคืชื•ืœื•ื’ื™

Ariza - Pack, packaging - ืืจื™ื–ื”

Ramai - Cheater, swindler - ืจืžืื™

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Playlist and Clips:

Shlomo Artzi - Tagidi (lyrics)

Kan - Shkarim levanim

Yehudit Ravits - Ahava Yomyomit (lyrics)

Shalom Hanoch & Arik Einstein - Al Tevatri Alai (lyrics)

Kan - Arizot shakraniyot

Ep. 13 Kombina

Ep. 63 Emet

Ep. 111 Mis'hak

Ep. 117 Ya habibi

Transcript

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This is T.L.B. 1.

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St.

0:11.0

St. St. Why?

0:12.0

Chilum. It's me Guy with Streetwise Hebrew. We're getting closer to

0:16.8

Elections Day in Israel and so today we'll talk about a route that is perhaps

0:21.0

too often used by politicians to accuse one another of being a liar,

0:26.2

Shim Kuf Resh, Shekur, lie. This episode will be about more than just dirty politics.

0:33.2

Don't worry.

0:34.0

We'll cover other goodies as well.

0:35.8

The Ghi-mat-my-tol-melt.

0:39.8

That-guidishke-eromelt. That-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hmyh, Tagiddie Sheker or a met.

0:43.0

Taggiddie Sheker or a met.

0:45.0

Tell me Sheker, a lie or a met, or truth.

0:50.0

Sheker is a lie, a met or truth.

0:53.0

Sheker is a lie. I spoke about a met truth on episode number 63.

0:58.0

For the first, Gile Sheva,

0:59.0

I was going to make a concept of that.

1:01.0

Sheker, she was my empathy.

1:02.0

She had me impati. I would be call the sotov la her rings. Gheer Gheer Shemunami a patia.

1:02.6

She more will be called the sotov leering.

1:05.0

See, or when Vouvan, to Shekere LaVane.

1:07.0

Shekere LaVane, white lie.

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